Muscat
Muscat is on hold for airspace and security assessment. Its roughly 2,940 NM direct geography does not establish a safe, legal or available route. Illustrative detours have not been cleared. Both A220 variants remain conditional research candidates, subject to a workable corridor, aircraft-specific mission fuel, diversion requirements and hot-day runway performance.
Evidence and limitations
On hold pending a precise airspace and security assessment. Current EASA advice concerns specific flight information regions or defined sectors; airport geography alone cannot establish an available route.
Distance is not an operating range calculation. This material does not establish airport, airspace, fuel, payload or regulatory feasibility.
What remains to be tested
Muscat is on hold for airspace and security assessment. Its roughly 2,940 NM direct geography does not establish a safe, legal or available route. Illustrative detours have not been cleared. Both A220 variants remain conditional research candidates, subject to a workable corridor, aircraft-specific mission fuel, diversion requirements and hot-day runway performance.
Study source references
Round 22 · 2 Nov 2026
Data position: AIRSPACE/SECURITY HOLD
Runway unknown; Airspace corridor access and security risk assessment outstanding
What is not yet proven: 2016–2025 actual route winds, two-way validated IFR paths, OEM trip fuel and A220 runway performance.
The airport evidence makes this a research candidate, not an operating or safety approval.
MuscatORIGINAL GRAPHIC / NOT A PHOTOGRAPHMuscat
Harbour Life Beneath the Mountains
Muscat follows the coast between bare mountains and the Gulf of Oman, linking harbour quarters, courtyards and pale façades. Muttrah’s corniche and working souq keep maritime memory close to everyday trade.
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